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Ernest Hemingway. in our time....
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Ernest Hemingway. in our time. Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924.4to. Woodcut portrait frontispiece of the author by Henry Strater. Publisher's printed paper boards; chemise and clamshell.
FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION of Hemingway's second book. Number 56 of only 170 copies. While 300 copies of this first edition were printed, only 170 perfect copies survived the run; the remaining 130 copies were damaged by the imposition of the watermark against the frontispiece (Grissom). The first six of the eighteen vignettes appeared earlier in the Spring 1923 "Exiles Number" of the Little Review under the collective title "In Our Time." They were subsequently included in the "Inquest into the State of Contemporary English Prose," a series edited by Ezra Pound and published by Bill Bird. Bird, of the Three Mountains Press, then issued the present work, with Hemingway's now expanded eighteen vignettes, under the title in our time.
Of in our time, contemporary critic Edmund Wilson remarked, "he is rather strikingly original, and in the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time [sic] has almost invented a form of his own..."
Condition: Board edges dampstained; spine chipped at ends, with losses to lower spine; rear joint and hinge cracked but holding; front joint and hinge starting; bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; text lightly toned; endpapers slightly discolored, as usually found.
References: Grissom A.2.1.a; Hanneman A2a.
Provenance: Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (bookplate), noted attorney who served, amongst other roles, as general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
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